Hong Kong Activists Burn China Flag

Updated Oct. 1, 2002 3:53 a.m. ET

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong marked China's National Day on Tuesday by burning the Chinese flag -- a crime in Hong Kong -- as they demanded an accounting for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. About 20 demonstrators scuffled with police as they approached an area where dignitaries were holding a morning flag-raising ceremony, but there was no serious trouble and no immediate arrests. The authorities warned the activists they had violated the law by torching the red and yellow national flag and said they reserved the right to bring charges later. Flag desecration was outlawed immediately after Hong Kong was...